Andrey Vedyaev

Andrey Vedyaev30.07.2025

Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Stanislav Alekseevich Vaupshasov is one of those people whose lives were spent in campaigns and battles, among forests, hills and mountain passes, behind the front line and, in his own words, at dangerous crossroads. He was born on July 27, 1899 in the town of Gruzdziai, 19 km from […]

Andrey Vedyaev28.07.2025

On July 10, 1900, the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Maria Aleksandrovna Fortus was born into the family of a Kherson banker. She had to look death in the eye more than once, but still stayed alive — it seemed that Fortune herself was on her side. At the age of 16, Maria, carried away by […]

Andrey Vedyaev04.03.2025

Half a century ago, on November 8, 1974, Wolf Messing passed away, a unique Soviet psychic and seer who made a significant contribution to the Victory of the Soviet people over the fascism of Europe. When I am asked what this contribution consists of, I suggest that we first think about the contribution to the […]

Andrey Vedyaev19.02.2025

Soviet intelligence officer, Hero of Russia Colonel Alexander Semenovich Feklisov can be counted among the most important witnesses of our atomic age without any exaggeration. He was a participant in Operation Enormous, an operation of the NKVD foreign intelligence service to obtain American atomic secrets. It was to him that the outstanding physicist Klaus Fuchs […]

Andrey Vedyaev29.08.2024

Among the founders and most prominent representatives of Soviet illegal intelligence, the name of General Eitingon occupies a special place. By and large, there were and are no equals to him. And I am certainly proud of my friendship with his daughter Muza and son Leonid. At the same time, until quite recently, the name […]

Andrey Vedyaev10.08.2024

The founder of domestic sabotage intelligence is Senior Major of State Security Yakov Serebryansky. A special place in the state security system is occupied by sabotage intelligence. Its purpose, unlike foreign policy intelligence, is not just to collect information about important strategic objects and military and political figures of the enemy, but to penetrate these […]

Andrey Vedyaev03.08.2024

Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin will forever go down in the history of foreign intelligence as the head of the first national intelligence service, created in our country in 1938-1939 through the efforts and genius of the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. By the mid-thirties, Soviet intelligence had been captured by international adventurers from […]

Andrey Vedyaev28.07.2024

On the last day of the outgoing year 1900, in the village of Rzhaventsy in the Bessarabian province of the Russian Empire, the most charming and attractive intelligence officer of the 20th century, the “queen of recruitment” Elizaveta Yulievna Zarubina, née Esther Rosenzweig, was born. She penetrated Trotsky’s plans, was a liaison for SS Hauptsturmführer […]

Andrey Vedyaev29.04.2024

70 years ago, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No.137/40 of March 13, 1954, the State Security Committee was created, which marked a new stage in the history of domestic intelligence services. Over the 37 years of its existence, the KGB has achieved outstanding results in ensuring national security, […]

Andrey Vedyaev25.04.2024

Olga Chekhova was a film star of the Third Reich and Hitler’s favorite actress. And all these years she was at the forefront of the invisible front, playing a complex and dangerous game against the leaders of the Nazi regime. It’s hard to believe, because she was not included in any foreign or military intelligence […]

Star of a Chekist

Maria from Kherson

Wolf Messing’s Magic is Immortal

Confession of an Intelligence Officer

High Espionage

Reconnaissance for Defeat

Chief of Intelligence

Cherchez la Femme

Lubyanka — the KGB House in Moscow

Olga Chekhova — the “Queen of the Nazi Reich” and Russian Spy

Japanese Communism: A Century of Revolution, Underground Struggle, and Parliamentary Politics

Shipyards Matter More Than Aircraft Carriers

Detroit Is Paying Students for Perfect Attendance

How Trump Plans To Silence CNN, Jon Stewart, and John Oliver